I think you have compiled more than enough evidence to show that using tanning beds, or laying in the sun without sun screen, is contributing to a pandemic of melanoma, skin cancers.
I see no reason for the medical field to suddenly, and capriciously decide that they don't like tanning beds and falsify research just to suit themselves. Serious research has been done, to which you link. There can be no doubt.
This is akin to the research done on smoking in the 50's and 60's. There was much resistance and advertising agencies took on the task to spin and discredit the studies piling up. The same is being done in the tanning industry. Big dollars and jobs are at stake.
The whole point is, that tanning beds will disfigure, age and harm with time, and apparently not a lot of it.
We made the decision in my day to keep smoking regardless of the mounting evidence. Today there can be no doubt about what smoking does to one's lungs and circulatory system. People may continue using tanning beds, but that does not mean that people with accurate information should stand mute. I'm glad this site is not.
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When I see an article like this (which, unfortunately, is far too often), two questions pops up in my head:
1. Does the Author really believe in what she is writing?
2. Why does she not bother to do just a little bit deeper research?
Of you only look at ABUSE, anything around us can be dangerous. And that is exactly what the forces behind the "sun-scare" campaign has done when collecting statistics in their "research".
There are no evidence whatsoever that regular and moderate indoor tanning is anything else than healthy.
Manufacturers of chemical sun-protection lotions and their lobbyists, have managed too well to indoctrinate us that sunshine is dangerous and that we always have to be covered in SPF-lotions.
Some basic research will reveal their intentions and the result.
For more about this, see http://thetanningguru.com